The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Stray Bits Of Entertaining Reading
Gmthered from the Exchanges,

| GhtuereO ITOu tne GxcuhuBess
A hospital for animals will soon be
erected In London, and at the same time
free dispensaries will be opened, where
the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs ard birds
Of the poor can be treated when Ill.
The Swedes Of Chicago are going to
erect, In Lincoln park, q $780, monu-
ment to Linneus, the famous bOtanist.
The monument will be the finest in Chi
cago, and Is to be fac smile Of the Lin
nRus statue at Stockholm.
The Mercantile library OF New York
city was founded and Is entirely mana,'e
by clerks. Amy one, by paying the &c,
may become member; but to hold Office,
or even to vote, one must be clerk or
working on salary in some mercantile
business.
A New York firm will manufacture
watches which cannot be spoiled, as com
mon watches are, by being magnetized
when brought near electric wires or dyna-
mos. They will have palladium hair
spring and a non magnetic compensation
balance.
A Tennessee mOuntaineer recently
found, under ledge of rocks, the sword
of Confederate officer. 1t proves to have
belonged to captain who was killed in a
skirmish, and one of his command hid it
that it might not fall into the hands Of the
Union forces.
The burning of the Paterson iron works
is attributed to the English sparrow. The
sparrOws have been noticed carrying straw
and other inflammable stuff and building
their nests among the Orders, and it is
lnl, hat In ,o,.lxc lodi rirr in hacQ
nests caused the fire.
A scheme is on foot to establish home
for Scandinavian emigrants in Boston.
This is not to take the form of charity,
but to encourage the Scandinavians to es-
tablish themselves in this country. 1t is
estimated that $50, 900 will be needed for
a building, and a nucleus of $500 or
$4,000 is already available.
A remarkable drinking contest took
place in a saloon in Carson, New, re-
Gently; remarkable because the liquid
was water. The wager was $50, and tho
man who won it drank eleven large
glasses of cold water, and was zone the
worse for it. The other fellow drank nine
glasses and became i'll.
Something new in contests over wills
is reported from Jersey court The tes-
tator bequeathed all his property to the
prospective children of his son, who is q
youth of Is, and who, finding himself
without means, has undertaken to brG:sk
the will on the ground that his father was
not entirely of sound mind.
A Frenchman recently rode into Water
vile. Me-. driving big Newfoundland
dog hitched to small two wheeled cart,
which the animal had hauled inside of
three days from town in Canada, a dis
tance of about $50 miles, The owner said
the dog could outstrip in days journey
the b st of horses.
An Iowa man has just shipped 300, 900
young pine trees from Black River Falls,
Wis, to Iowa to be transplanted. He
has made a shipment nearly every year
for the last thirty years, and says his ex-
perience is that these trees are tle most
thrifty and hardy and make the best wind
brakes of any tree that has yet been tried
on the Iowa prairies
Some of the Buffalo sign painters have
hard times with -ss2zc y, and -.'etc." One
sign reads, Groceries, provisions and &c"
Another has it "Stc. Still other forms are
"and etc, ;" "&soforth "et&cc," and "and
ct cetera.' One man, who believes in
giving his customers their choice fronNa
large stock, hangs out the sign, DRY
Goods, Et Cetera, Etc, &C."
The Philadelphia Crematory associa-
ton has decided on plans for its crema-
tory building, which will be 81 by SO feet
in size. 81 feet in height, and consists of a
crematory chamber and over that chapel.
The latter will be 81 feet square and 40
TO- hiyb p,in1 Ohio conIcfppka and
iron will be the principal materials used.